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Article discusses growing resentment of public employees and union workers. Higher education faculty organizations are meeting to discuss concerns and to review draft of California Faculty Association's, "Quality Higher Education for the 21st Century." http://qualityhighered.wordpress.com/
(Inside Higher Ed, 01/21/11)

Discusses a meeting of faculty members from the unions of public colleges from 21 states to launch a campaign to assure the future of higher education. Participants reviewed a set of organizing principles contained in a draft document called "Quality Higher Education for the 21st Century." (Inside Higher Ed, 01/24/11)

Brief produced by American Council of Education providing insights on how to chair a department of unionized faculty.

Article that discusses members of New York's faculty and professional union rejecting a bid -- endorsed by their leaders -- to split off from the American Association of University Professors.

Discusses core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing community colleges and closing student achievement gaps. (Public Agenda and Achieving the Dream, March 2011)

Describes a set of core principles for effective faculty engagement in the institutional change process. Each principle includes recommendations and practices. (Achieving the Dream and Public Agenda, Fall 2011)

Presentation on faculty work load

Article describes Achieving the Dream's efforts to respond to the project's evaluation by MDRC. Efforts include better faculty engagement and professional development, and sustaining and scaling up reforms. (Inside Higher Ed, 04/06/11)

The newspaper article from the Business Gazette (MD) details the efforts of Maryland communities colleges and Montgomery College, in particular, to redesign remediation by integrating basic math and English skills into vocational and specialized major courses. By including remedial curricula within major content areas, faculties hope to increase retention and completion rates for students who require college prep.

Global Skills for College Completion (GSCC) deploys an online community of 26 outstanding basic skills faculty in 16 states on 13 campuses to innovate math and writing basic skills pedagogy to consistently increase pass rates to 80%. The project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the League for Innovation in the Community College in partnership with Knowledge in the Public Interest and LaGuardia Community College in New York.

Chapter in Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy, and Praxis, Vol. 3, 1215-148. 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Article in Community College Journal on impact of unions on community college academic governance

NEA Grant Committee on Distance Education developed the following policy and bargaining benchmarks having to do with distance education

Paper presented at 2008 at NCSCBHEP conference

Paper presented at the 2008 NCSCBHEP conference

Outlines issues in a sample Collective Bargaining Agreement having to do with technology to include Distance Learning

Review of the role of unions on governance in higher education

Comments at 2008 NCSCBHEP conference on the impact of technology and distance education on instruction and intellectual property

Presentation for AACC Convention in 2008